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Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] find manpage typos, formatting, section


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] find manpage typos, formatting, section ordering (bug #20552)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:27:20 -0600
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According to James Youngman on 7/21/2007 6:46 AM:
> +#20552: Fixed typos, formatting and section ordering issues in the
> +find manual page.
> +
> +++ b/find/find.1

In general, this is an improvement, so it is worth checking in.  However,
you are still missing some typos.  For example, the synopsis lists:

.B find
[\-H] [\-L] [\-P] [-D debugopts] [-Olevel] [path...] [expression]

with inconsistent quoting of '-'.

Then, under OPTIONS, you mention that only -H, -L, and -P must appear
before directory names, although -D and -O should also be mentioned; you
may also want to consider listing that -- can end the options.

find --help claims that -regextype is a positional option, but the start
of OPTIONS does not list it.

> +
>  .IP "\-readable, \-writable, \-executable"

Split this into three references, properly sorted.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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